A workshop on "Climate Compatible Urban Development: Towards developing assessment framework for cities" will be organized from 12-13 March 2013 at the Novotel Hotel at Siam Square, Bangkok. Jointly organized by
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand (http://energy.ait.ac.th/), CGER/National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan ( http://www.cger.nies.go.jp/), and Global Carbon Project (GCP) Tsukuba International Office, Japan (http://www.gcp-urcm.org) In collaborations with Urban Climate Change Research Network (http://uccrn.org/), and NSF-Research Co-ordination Network on Sustainable Cities, the workshop is a 1.5-day brainstorming workshop.
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand (http://energy.ait.ac.th/), CGER/National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan ( http://www.cger.nies.go.jp/), and Global Carbon Project (GCP) Tsukuba International Office, Japan (http://www.gcp-urcm.org) In collaborations with Urban Climate Change Research Network (http://uccrn.org/), and NSF-Research Co-ordination Network on Sustainable Cities, the workshop is a 1.5-day brainstorming workshop.
Deliverables of the workshop will include a short synthetic technical report, conceptual framework, a set of key defining indicators at an urban context to look at mitigation and adaptation challenges. Mobilizing interests and support from the research communities, and creating a network of researchers and collaborators on the topic for the future work will also be accomplished in this workshop.
Details are available at this link:
For more information, contact:
Dr. Shobhakar Dhakal
Associate Professor, Energy Field of Study
School of Environment, Resources and Development
Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Tel: +66 2 524 5403, Fax: +66 2 524 5439
E-mail: shobhakar@ait.ac.th, shobhakar.dhakal@gmail.com